Purchasing Managers’ Indices indicate expansions in both Manufacturing and Services activities in February 2025.

Sri Lanka Purchasing Managers’ Index for Manufacturing (PMI – Manufacturing) recorded an index value of 56.8 in February 2025, indicating a continued expansion in manufacturing activities. This expansion is attributable to the positive contributions from all sub-indices.

The Sri Lankan foreign exchange (FX) market has successfully implemented an FX matching platform, as per the initiative taken by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to foster a deeper FX market. This platform, which is accessible to all Licensed Commercial Banks, National Savings Bank, and the CBSL, was introduced to enhance price discovery, and to promote greater transparency and efficiency in the domestic FX market. Accordingly, BMatch FX matching platform (BMatch) of Bloomberg was chosen by the domestic FX market for this purpose.